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Academics Praveen.Kumar3… Mon, 08/31/2020 - 10:51

BOW Cross-Registration

BOW Cross-Registration

Fall 2024 Cross-Registration

Babson, Olin, and Wellesley Colleges are pleased to announce that they will continue offering cross-registration for the Fall 2024 semester.  Please note calendar differences and plan your schedule accordingly.

 

Cross-Registration Petitions Accepted

First day of Classes

Add Deadline

Drop Deadline

Withdrawal Deadline

Last Day of Classes

Finals Period

Babson

April 22

Aug 26

Aug 30

(4:30 pm)

Aug 30

(4:30 pm)

Oct 29

(4:30 pm)

Dec 2

Dec 5 - 6 and

Dec 9 - 12

Olin

April 22

Sept 3

Sept 16

(11:59pm)

Nov 7

 (11:59 pm)

Dec 12 (11:59 pm)

Dec 12

Dec 16 - 19

Wellesley

April 22

Sept 3

Sept 13

(4:00 pm)

Sept 27

(4:00 pm)

Dec 11

(4:00 pm)

Dec 11

Dec 16 - 19

 

Spring 2024 Cross Registration Calendars

 

 

Cross-Registration Petitions Accepted

First day of Classes

Add Deadline

Drop Deadline

Spring Break

Withdrawal Deadline

Last Day of Classes

Finals Period

Babson

November 20

January 16

January 22

4:30pm EST

January 22

4:30pm EST

March 11-15

March 26

4:30 pm EDT

Last day to withdraw or declare pass/fail

April 24

April 26 – May 3

Olin

November 20

January 18

January 31

11:59pm EST

March 29

Last day to drop or declare pass/no credit

March 18-22

April 29

April 29

May 1 –

May 6

Wellesley

November 20

January 22

February 2

11:59pm EST

February 16

11:59pm EST

Last day to drop or declare credit/noncredit

March 18-22

May 1

May 1

May 6 –

May 9

 

 

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL BOW STUDENTS

We encourage students to take advantage of the rich opportunities available via cross-registration. In order to make your experience with cross-registration go more smoothly, we recommend that you take the time to familiarize yourself with the rules and procedures.  It is helpful to understand that cross-registration is a very manual process between the Registrar offices of the various schools - things that happen "automatically" when adding, dropping or changing a class at your home school will not be automatic for cross-registered classes and may require a bit more communication on your part.  When you are enrolled into a class at another BOW school, you will receive an email from the host school's registrar office - please read this email carefully, as it will contain important information regarding steps you need to take and how to make any changes in your enrollment.

ALL PROCEDURES FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE HOST INSTITUTION. This applies to add/drop deadlines, grading policies, etc. Educate yourself about these rules by checking the host school's course catalog and the Academics/Registrar section of their website. If you are not familiar with the rules, you may find yourself closed out of a class or receiving a failing grade because you didn’t withdraw by the appropriate deadline.

BE AWARE OF CALENDARING DIFFERENCES. Calendars are closely coordinated, but they are not fully aligned. This means that classes may begin on the other campus(es) before you have moved into your residence hall, or they may meet during your spring break, or end after your other classes have ended.  If you are applying after the semester has already begun at another college you may be denied if you have already missed classes, so it is best to plan ahead and submit your application early. If you must miss classes during the semester, work with the faculty to see if classes can be made up or otherwise managed.  The Drop deadlines for each school will vary; cross-registration follows the deadlines of the host school.  If you have scheduling conflicts during final exams/events, it is up to you to make arrangements with your instructor.  

SENIORS TAKE NOTICE. If you are a second‐semester senior, make sure that the faculty on the other campus(es) know the date when your grades must be submitted to your Registrar so that you can be certified for graduation and/or honors. Most faculty will try to accommodate deadlines, but in some cases it may be impossible, and you should be aware that a late grade may delay receiving your diploma or prevent you from being eligible for certain honors. Please check with the Registrar at your home school for the implications of late grades during your final semester.

PRE-REQUISITE COURSES: If you have not taken a requisite course at a host school, you may be required to obtain the permission of the instructor before enrolling in the class. 

  • Principles of Integrated Engineering (ENGR2110) should not be the first course a student takes at Olin.  The prerequisite for PIE for cross-registered students is either ENGR1200 Design Nature, ENGR1125 Introduction to Sensors Instrumentation & Measurement, or permission of the instructor (based upon an approved equivalent course at the student's home institution).

CAMPUS DIFFERENCES. Each college has its own culture, and these cultures are reflected in registration and course selection. Be aware of these differences and what is required of you. At Wellesley, faculty may assume a certain amount of change in enrollments over the first weeks of the semester.  At Olin and Babson, project teams will form and and assignments often begin quite quickly.

PLANNING YOUR SCHEDULE. In setting up your schedule, be sure to allow for travel time, time to do group work with your fellow students, and time to attend faculty office hours on the other campus(es).

DROPPING A CROSS-REGISTERED CLASS:  You must notify the Registrar's offices at both the host school and your home school if you decide to drop a cross registered class.  As with all deadlines, the drop deadline will be the deadline of the host school. Failure to notify the host school registrar by their drop deadline may lead to a WD or a failing grade. 

Praveen.Kumar3… Wed, 07/15/2020 - 15:06

Babson Cross-Registration

Babson Cross-Registration

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Babson undergraduate students have the opportunity to cross-register to Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Wellesley College in Wellesley, Brandeis University in Waltham, Regis College in Weston, and Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill. Information about cross-registering to non-BOW schools can be found HERE.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION
 

Babson students may cross-register during the fall and spring semesters for a maximum of one course per semester, subject to availability. All cross-registered students are subject to the rules and sanctions of the host college or university. This includes, but is not limited to, academic honesty and integrity policies, as well as add/drop and withdrawal policies.

Students must notify both the Babson Registrar’s Office AND the Registrar’s Office of the host college or university to drop or withdraw from a cross-registered course.

The final grade for a cross-registered course is posted on your Babson transcript and calculated into the grade point average.

The academic calendars for these other colleges and universities may not align with the Babson academic calendar. For example, course start and end dates as well as the spring break period may vary. Students must plan accordingly.

Students are strongly discouraged from cross-registering in their final semester. Such students should meet with their class dean before submitting a Petition for Cross Enrollment. Babson students who plan to cross-register in their final semester need to be aware of the deadlines for grades to be submitted to the Babson Registrar’s Office in order to meet Commencement requirements. The Babson Registrar’s Office must receive spring semester grades by 4:30 p.m. on the Tuesday before Commencement. If the grades are not received by this deadline, the student will be listed in the Commencement Program with the May graduates, but honors will not be designated and the student will not receive a diploma at the ceremony. The student will receive a diploma upon completion of all degree requirements, will be ranked with all graduates once all grades are received, and will be awarded honors if applicable.

Here are some important things to know when cross registering at any of the BOW schools.

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Olin Cross-Registration

Olin Cross-Registration

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For Olin students interested in cross-registering to Wellesley College, Babson College or Brandeis University:

Olin College participates in cross-registration with Babson College, Brandeis University and Wellesley College (BBW). This mini-consortium is referred to at Olin as BBOW. 

Cross-registration is available for Olin students during the traditional fall and spring semesters. Students wishing to take part in an intersession or summer program at a BBW school may do so at their own expense if admitted to the program.

Olin College students (except first semester first-year students) may take Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences or elective courses at other schools with which we have cross-registration policy agreements. Generally, first semester first-year students are not eligible for cross-registration, unless Olin designates specific courses designed for the first semester experience. Students cannot substitute a cross-registered course at another institution for a required course that is routinely offered at Olin.

Taking a course at another school will count toward your total semester degree credit load at Olin. Students cannot exceed twenty (20) total credits in a given semester unless they receive permission from COSAP (Committee on Student Academic Progress).

Eligible Olin students are allowed to take a maximum of one course at each BBW school per semester.  You may only have one active request per college at a time.  If your initial request is not approved, then you may submit another request for that college.

If you are interested in taking a studio art class, Wellesley's Art department has guaranteed/allocated one seat per studio art class for Olin students.

Students taking courses at another school should be careful to follow all academic policies, deadlines, etc. related to the host school. Consult the calendar section on this website for dates of first day and last day of classes, breaks, and the final exam period. Deadlines are firm, and Babson professors will often deny students admission to their class if they have already missed more than one class meeting, so plan ahead and apply as early as possible. Cross-registered students who need to stay in their Olin dorm at a time when Olin classes are not in session should work with Res Life to make arrangements. For Fall 2024 please note:

  • Babson's classes start August 26 and their Add and Drop deadlines are both August 30. 
  • Wellesley may not permit cross registration into certain introductory level classes prior to August 30, since they are holding seats for their first-year students.

Students may petition the CSTB (Course Substitution & Transfer Board) for permission to transfer credit from BBW classes to their Olin records, but such approval is not guaranteed.  The list of BBW courses which have previously been evaluated and approved for credit at Olin can be found here.  If a student enrolls in a class that is not on this list, they should submit a CSTB form via the registrar's office to request evaluation of the class for Olin credit.  Please note - in some cases there are departmental approvals on the list; any class within some departments has a blanket approval for a specific color credit distribution.

Pass/Fail - Olin students must follow the rules of the host institution if they would like to take a cross-registered class Pass/Fail. Babson - not all Babson classes offer pass/fail as an option; information on Grading Basis options for each Babson class is in Workday.  Brandeis - does not permit cross-registered students to take any classes pass/fail. Wellesley -  grading can be made pass/fail by emailing registrar@wellesley.edu by the appropriate deadline (see Wellesley's academic calendar).

More information regarding cross-registration can be found in the Course Catalog.  Specific instructions for using the Cross-Registration feature of my.Olin can be found here.

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Wellesley Cross-Registration

Wellesley Cross-Registration

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Wellesley students may cross-register for courses at a BOW school that have been approved by the appropriate Wellesley academic department and for which they will receive transfer credit toward their degree.  

Wellesley College students may cross-register for courses at Olin College; all courses have been pre-approved for transfer credit to Wellesley. Please follow the instructions here.  

Wellesley College students may cross-register for courses at Babson College that have been approved by the appropriate Wellesley academic department and for which they will receive transfer credit toward their degree. Please follow the instructions here.

Here are some important things to know when cross registering at any of the BOW schools.

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Cross Dining

Cross Dining

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Cross-registered students from Wellesley may eat meals at the Trim Dining Hall on the Babson campus.

Olin students may eat up to 30 meals per semester at Trim Dining Hall as part of their meal plan.

 

Olin

Cross-registered students from Wellesley may eat meals at the Olin Campus Center Dining Hall. 

Babson students may eat up to 20 meals per semester at the Olin Campus Center as part of their meal plan.

 

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Cross-registered students from Olin and Babson may eat meals at the Campus Center Dining Hall on Wellesley’s campus.

 

Praveen.Kumar3… Wed, 07/15/2020 - 15:24

Featured Cross Registered Courses

Featured Cross Registered Courses

Interested at cross-registering for a course at Babson, Wellesley, or Olin? Click here to find out more information on the cross-registration process. Here are some featured courses being offered for the Spring 2020 semester:

 

Babson College

AHS 1000-06: Foundations of Critical Inquiry: Self in Context
Course Instructor: Jon Hodge
Course Meeting Times: MW 3:00 PM – 4:35 PM

The Arts and Humanities / History and Society Foundation (AHS) engages a combination of perspectives, including aesthetic, ethical, historical and societal, to explore a particular topic or theme. Exploring a topic such as nature, justice, or memory, for example, through a rich array of perspectives aims to develop the ability to see that all interpretations are impacted by the context, values, and attitudes of the interpreter—including, of course, our own. We use course materials from a range of media and genres to explore the topic and learn to use complexity and ambiguity to enrich and deepen our inquiry. This theme-based course aims to establish a foundation of skills that anticipate the more disciplinary and interdisciplinary analytical skills that are introduced at the Intermediate Level of the Liberal Arts Curriculum. A more detailed description of each theme can be found at http://www.babson.edu/Academics/undergraduate/core-experiences/Pages/home.aspx

ARB 4610-01: Elementary Arabic II: Language, Culture, and Business (Prerequisite: ARB2200) 
Course Instructor: Louissa Abdelghany 
Course Meeting Times: 11:30 AM – 1:05 PM 

ARB 4610 is a further study of the Arabic language and Arabic-speaking cultures. It will continue to build Arabic vocabulary, grammar and general communicative competence. It will also stress training in reading and writing short essays, and in enhancing spoken skills necessary for a variety of daily activities. Students will explore the differences between standard Arabic and the dialects used in different regions of the Arab speaking world. As the course progresses, more emphasis will fall on teaching Arabic in business contexts in an interactive and communicative way. This last part of the course will focus on developing students’ abilities in using Arabic in business environments, including commercial, media and financial purposes.

ARB 4650: Business Arabic (Prerequisites: ARB 2200 & ARB 4610. This course is open to High Intermediate, Advanced and heritage speakers of Arabic)
Course Instructor: Louissa Abdelghany
Course Meeting Times: TR 9:45 AM – 11:20 AM

This course aims to help students acquire and develop the tools necessary to learn about business in the Arab world from the Arabic media perspective. It introduces students to business vocabularies and helps them practice the four basic language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening through extensive use of authentic Arabic business-related materials.
Students will learn the specialized structure and vocabulary of business Arabic, beginning with the analysis of headlines and telegraphic language and messaging, and continuing into video, radio, film, and web-based content. They will examine authentic and recent media Arabic materials taken from different Arabic newspapers and media sources such as Al-Hayat, Al-Ahram and Al-Jazeera with a view to introducing them to a variety of stylistic features and terminologies pertaining to the conventional and specialized writing of Arabic business writing. The course will be taught in Arabic and English.

FRN4640 French Cinema and Culture
Course Instructor: Sophia Niehaus

Course Meeting Times: MW 11:30 AM - 1:05 PM

This course is designed as an advanced-level conversation class, with a strong cultural component. The major course materials are French films and supplementary readings. These films and readings serve as the basis for debate, discussion and written analysis of issues relevant to the history, culture and politics of France and the francophone world of North Africa and the Caribbean, with a focus on global issues of social concern. This course is designed for students who have mastered the grammatical structures of French, although there will be review of grammar as needed. This course is not open to native speaker.

LVA 2039: Curiosity in Literature (Prerequisites: RHT and AHS)
Course Instructor: Melissa Leonard
Course Meeting Times:TR 8:00 AM – 9:35 AM

Curiosity contains within it a contradiction; it is our drive to know battling against our fear of the unknown, and it has played a major role in literature for a very long time. In this course, we will read texts that span several continents and centuries as we study curiosity and ask ourselves myriad questions. Why did the definition of curiosity change from negative to positive in the 14th century? Is curiosity hubristic tinkering or social responsibility? How is curiosity valued? Is the valuation of curiosity dependent on what is being sought? Is curiosity linked to gender? Who is rewarded for possessing it? Who is punished? If curiosity killed the cat, why? We will study Greek Myths and Fairy Tales as well as the following authors: John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Sigmund Freud, Agatha Christie, Anne Sexton, and Patricia Highsmith. We will also view Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo.

LVA 2049-01: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Literature (Prerequisites: RHT and AHS)
Course Instructor:  Mary C. Pinard
Course Meeting Times: TR 9:45 AM – 11:20 AM

The novelist Joyce Carol Oates has said, "To be an American is to be a kind of pilgrim ... a seeker after truth. The pilgrim is our deepest and purest self." In this course we'll explore the character of the pilgrim in selected fiction, essays, and poems, using questions such as: What inspires someone to take and retake pilgrimages: long, often difficult journeys far from home? What friendships and other communities form along the way and why? What besides self-enrichment do pilgrims hope to find, or possibly lose? Through close reading, discussion, and written analyses, we'll study how writers use setting, plot, and theme to consider these questions. There will also be one field trip, which will serve as a local pilgrimage. Course texts may include contemporary works by Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula Le Guin, and Curtis Sittenfeld, as well as selections from Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer,Basho, and Thoreau.

LVA 2081-01: Native American Literature (Prerequisites: RHT1000 and RHT1001 and AHS1000)
Course Instructor: Jordan Clapper
Course Meeting Times: TR 1:15 PM – 2:50 PM

North American Indigenous narratives take many forms, from the traditional forms of orature in culture formation to modern day practices like novels, comic books, and even video games. Indigenous narratives and the study of indigeneity, especially of the North American varieties, is inherently a multi-ethnic process. This class is designed to help you explore the wide range of indigenous narratives that have risen out of the hundreds and hundreds of individual tribes, both inde- and interdependent of each other, through the course of history. This class will explore various cultural, historical, and theoretical ways that these narratives and their worlds are constructed, while also grappling with the larger conversation of Native narrative and its many relationships.

MKT4525: Sustainable Marketing (pre-requisite:  Principles of Marketing)
Course Instructor:  Asheen Phansey
Course Meeting Times:  W 3:00 PM - 6:10 PM

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the complexities of integrated sustainability from a managerial perspective. Both consumers and businesses are demanding solutions to sustainability issues for products and services throughout the value chain. Today’s sustainability issues are all encompassing and include strategies for managing structural injustice challenges, and ecological integrity concerns throughout the entire ideation to go-to-market process. Firms must make thoughtful investment and resource decisions that consider multiple stakeholder perspectives using a systems thinking lens, carefully evaluating all risks and rewards. Furthermore, entrepreneurs and marketers must learn to adapt their marketing strategies to sustainable products and services to redefine the value proposition.

SEN 1329 (Non-Credit Course)
Course Instructor:  Melissa Denizard, Babson Senior Instructor
Course Meeting Times:  First 6 Wednesdays in Spring 2020 beginning January 29, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

This non-credit course is through the Babson Senior-Led Seminar Program. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter has been cultivating her rich and dynamic career for over 20 years. The notorious and equally dynamic Beyhive considers each of Beyoncé’s albums to be a new era -- a newly defined moment of Beyoncé’s growth. Contemporary Beyoncé is often described as pro-Black and pro-women, but the picture is more complex. In order to fully understand Beyoncé’s personal branding, we must study how her racial and gender identities have manifested throughout her career. Through a dynamic seminar and an analysis of her body of work, students will study the evolution of Beyoncé’s personal brand by grounding our understanding in the expansiveness of Black feminism, the prevalence of racial capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives.

SEN 1330: Like a Rolling Stone: Understanding Rock & Roll (Non-Credit Course)
Course Instructor: Natalie Novak, Babson Senior Instructor
Course Meeting Times: First 6 Wednesdays in Spring 2020 beginning January 29, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

This non-credit course is part of the Babson Senior-Led Seminar Program. This seminar will examine some of the most influential rock songs of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. At the course’s core, students will listen to and discuss songs such as Whole Lotta Love, Pinball Wizard, and Help. Students will also learn about how the songs were created and connect them to a broader cultural context. For each song, the seminar will explore “why this song, for this audience, at this time?” Broad topics will include Beatlemania, Psychedelic Rock, New-Wave and Glam, and students should come prepared to hear new songs and enjoy themselves!

SEN 1331: The Taiwan Strait: History, Politics, and a Troubled Relationship
Course Instructor: Viola Du, Babson Senior Instructor
Course Meeting Times: First 6 Wednesdays in Spring 2020 beginning January 29, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

This non-credit course is part of the Babson Senior-Led Seminar Program.  The Taiwan Strait, with its significant geographical location and well-publicized political tensions, is an important part of the U.S.’s Asian Pacific strategy. However, many do not fully understand the complex history of this piece of land. How did tensions between mainland China and Taiwan escalate to where they are today? And what is the U.S. role in this relationship?  This seminar explores the history of mainland China and Taiwan, including U.S. intervention, from WWII to present. Students will discuss the triangular relationship among the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Nationalist Party (KMT), and the U.S. Topics will include the Chinese Civil War, the U.S. notion of the “loss of China,” conflicts between mainland Chinese immigrants and indigenous Taiwanese, and the changing of Taiwanese identity, to name a few. This seminar stands at the intersection of history, political science, and international relations. It aims to provide an introduction, so that students can form their own analyses about Taiwan, objectively and critically.

SPN4640-01: Spanish at the Movies (Prerequisites: SPN4620, or equivalent proficiency as demonstrated through a required placement test)
Course Instructor: Meghan Allen
Course Meeting Times: MW 1:15 PM – 2:50 PM

This course is designed as an advanced-level conversation class, with a strong cultural component. The major course materials are contemporary Spanish language films and supplementary readings. Through the lens of ethical questions and concerns that surface in these films, students will study issues relevant to the history, culture, and politics of contemporary Latin America and Spain. Films and readings serve as the basis for debate, discussion, and written analysis. This course aims to ease the path towards greater fluency through improvements in accuracy and more spontaneous communication.  Not open to fluent speakers of Spanish.

Olin College

ENGR 3199: Satellite Systems and Consulting Business Practices
Course Instructor: Professor Whitney Lohmeyer
Course Meeting Times: W 3:20 pm - 6:00 pm
This course provides students with the opportunity to learn about the multifaceted engineering discipline of satellite systems through the experience of a semester-long, customer-client consulting simulation. The primary technical areas covered are orbital mechanics and satellite communications design (link budgets, availability, propagation impacts). On the first day of class, students will begin building their orbit propagator in Matlab, which they will expand upon (including aspects of communications design) throughout the course of the semester. To gain insight into the policy and regulatory hurdles the satellite industry faces, students will also dive into orbital debris mitigation (understanding the legalities, or lack thereof, of launching and deorbiting spacecraft) and spectrum management (licensing spacecraft through the FCC and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)). Throughout the semester, students will be given assignments in the form of consulting arrangements for which they have to negotiate their hourly rate, invoice their customer, and pay estimated quarterly taxes. The course will conclude with a satellite communications system design project that will require use of their orbit propagator, industry tools like STK and NASA’s Orbital Debris Assessment software and build upon each of the lessons learned throughout the course.

ENGR 3535/SCI2235: Biomimicry (Prerequisite: ENGR 2250, SCI12** - Waived for Babson and Wellesley students)
Course Instructor: Jean Huang and Ben Linder
Course Meeting Times: MR 10:50AM-12:30PM
We can learn from nature! From studying a leaf to make a better solar cell to emulating natural processes to develop living buildings, the discipline of Biomimicry views nature as “model, mentor and measure (Benyus, 1997). Spiders spin protein silk with the strength of steel yet much lighter all at ambient temperature and pressure. Cuttlefish change color to match their surroundings in milliseconds by contracting their chromatophores and even bioluminesce. In this course we will study wonders like these to appreciate the beauty and sophistication of life by investigating the biological mechanisms and functions of organisms as well as the dynamics of whole ecosystems. By examining biological systems at multiple scales, we can draw insights from understanding how they work. By collecting data, running experiments, creating models, or building prototypes, we can translate these insights into design ideas and practice. We will examine and discuss big ideas and thinking in biology and design and then synthesize and reflect on the intersection of these fields. Students will develop skills and insights through critical analysis of readings and the development of projects that draw on both fields. Biological systems have undergone 3.8 billion years of evolution, resulting in time-tested approaches to living on earth that are efficient and embody sustainability. By exploring the intersection of biology and design, we might learn to do the same. This course is cross listed with SCI2235. Enrollment in ENGR3235 is as design depth as projects will be focused on engineering design solutions. If advanced science credit is desired, enroll in SCI2235.

 

Wellesley College

AMST/ENG 116: Asian American Fiction
Course Instructor: Yoon Sun Lee
Course Meeting Times: M/R 11:20 AM - 12:35 PM

At various times over the past century and a half, the American nation has welcomed, expelled, tolerated, interned, ignored, and celebrated immigrants from Asia and their descendants. This course examines the fictions produced in response to these experiences. We will see in these works irony, humor, tragedy, mystery, the emergence of a self-conscious Asian American identity, as well as transnational structures of feeling. Writers include Maxine Hong Kingston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-Rae Lee, Le Thi Diem Thuy, Lisa Ko.

ENG 282,: Topics in Literary Criticism (Ghost Stories Around the World)
Course Instructor: Yoon Sun Lee
Course Meeting Times: M/T 2:20 PM - 3:35 PM

Everyone loves ghost stories, but why? Do we believe in their truth? Do we see ghosts as something that people from other cultures believe? We will explore stories about ghosts from across the world and through history, as well as literary criticism that addresses how we read and how literature represents reality. Stories and plays will include well-known works such as Hamlet and Toni Morrison's Beloved, as well as non-European fiction such as Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard, and Hwang Sok-Yong's The Guest

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Degree Programs

Degree Programs

Wellesley 4+1 Degree Program
(for Wellesley students)
 

Applying to the 4+1 Program
 

As a dual degree program, the Olin 4+1 program offers a number of potential advantages for Wellesley students. Graduates of the program may have greater access to engineering careers and/or graduate study in engineering. The program requires relatively little disruption to the student’s Wellesley program: the student graduates at Wellesley with her entering class, and then transitions smoothly to being a full-time student at Olin for her fifth year of study. The Olin engineering programs also differ significantly from most other schools’ programs, particularly in the emphasis on design, active learning, and interdisciplinary approaches.

At the same time, the 4+1 program is clearly not appropriate for all students. The 4+1 program requires a significant commitment (at least an additional year of study), and Wellesley students must complete math and science requirements, as well as at least five engineering courses, before their final year at Olin. For some students in fields such as physics or computer science, a master’s degree in engineering or science can make more sense than an additional bachelor's degree. Furthermore, the requirements of the program reduce a student’s elective flexibility during her four years at Wellesley.

Compatibility with Wellesley Majors 
 

Many Wellesley majors are, in principle, compatible. Naturally majors that include a higher fraction of science and mathematics courses have greater overlap with the requirements of an engineering degree; some majors may be incompatible simply due to the large number of units required.

Details on applying for the 4+1 program - click here

 

4+1 Program Admission Timeline
 

October 15: Deadline for submitting the Application for Wellesley Support

December 1: Deadline for submitting the 4+1 application and all supporting materials

Mid-December: Decision letters sent to applicants

February 15: Deadline to apply for need-based financial aid by submitting the FAFSA form

February/March: Notification of costs sent out to admitted students

April 1: Deadline for accepting offer of admission to the 4+1 program and for submission of a non-refundable $1000 deposit. Admitted students should notify the Associate Director of Admission via email (susan.brisson@olin.edu) of their decision.

Mid-April: Enrolled 4+1 students register for fall classes

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Certificate Program

Certificate Program

Engineering Certificate - click here for details

Olin offers a Certificate in Engineering Studies for students at Wellesley College and Babson College who wish to gain a foundation in engineering content, skills, and perspectives, as well as some depth in one engineering field. The structure of this certificate gives students the flexibility to create course plans that meet their interests and needs.

Students wishing to enroll in the certificate program must submit their Certificate Program Enrollment Form after successfully completing one course at Olin. Certificates will only be issued upon completion of an approved plan.

 

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Engineering Certificate

Engineering Certificate

Engineering Certificate

Olin offers a Certificate in Engineering Studies for students at Wellesley College and Babson College who wish to gain a foundation in engineering content, skills, and perspectives, as well as some depth in one engineering field. The structure of this certificate gives students the flexibility to create course plans that meet their interests and needs.

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